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Sold-Out 2018 International Home + Housewares Show Brims with Innovation, Vibrant Buzz on Show Floor
ROSEMONT, IL (March 19, 2018)—The just-concluded 2018 International Home + Housewares Show is garnering rave reviews from the industry with an overall sentiment that the quality of top-to-top buyer and seller attendees was the strongest in years. The Show was sold-out with 2,244 exhibitors from 53 countries and featured a focus on the smart home and connected products. “Even with the impact of the East Coast weather differential on Tuesday, we are very pleased with buyer attendance as 99 percent of the top 200 domestic retailers registered to attend, and international attendance was very close to last year’s record number,” ... |
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Roth Cheese Wins Five Awards at World Championship Cheese Contest
MADISON, Wis., March 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Roth Cheese took home five awards at the World Championship Cheese Contest held in Madison, Wisconsin last week. Coming in first in the Open Class: Pepper Flavored Cheeses category was Roth Chipotle Havarti. Roth's Dutch-inspired Havarti cheese is infused with jalapeno peppers and chipotle spices to make Chipotle Havarti with a spicy, smoky flavor. Roth's signature Grand Cru Reserve Alpine-style cheese and Roth Pavino, an exclusive cheese sold at Whole Foods, both took home second place medals. Roth GranQueso, a Spanish-inspired cheese, was awarded third place in the Latin American Style Hard Cheeses ... |
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In the Wake of Necco Layoffs, MyCustomCandy Announces Upgraded Candy Hearts Coming in 2019
TAMPA, Fla., March 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida custom candy company, MyCustomCandy announced today that it will be "Rebirthing" the classic candy hearts and is already in talks with major retailers to replace the soon-to-be extinct original candy hearts with new, high-quality candy hearts using an updated edible printing technology that will print crisp words and even simple images on the hearts. 117-year old candy company, Necco, makers of the iconic Valentine's Day candy hearts recently announced that they are in financial trouble and will lay off nearly 400 workers in May if they do not find a buyer. A sad end to the ... |
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SIAL China Responds to Fresh Food E-commerce Boom and New Retail Landscape
BEIJING, CHINA – Fresh food e-commerce is disrupting the retail landscape in China by making it easier for consumers to purchase fresh, healthy, and imported food products. According to iResearch, in 2017 the approximate Gross Market Value of China’s fresh food e-commerce market reached RMB 140 billion, a nearly 60-percent increase from 2016. Leading the change are e-commerce giants using their experience in online retail, logistics, and deep pockets to invest in 'new retail' business models, cold food chain, and the supply chain. New retail businesses, such as 7Fresh and HEMA, which are backed by JD.com and Alibaba, respectively, operate ... |
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Bodega Latina Corporation to Acquire Fiesta Mart to Create the Nation’s Largest Hispanic-Focused Grocer
PARAMOUNT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bodega Latina Corporation (“Bodega Latina”), doing business as “El Super”, a leading U.S. Hispanic grocer and a subsidiary of Grupo Comercial Chedraui, S.A.B. DE C.V. (“Chedraui”), has agreed to acquire Fiesta Mart, L.L.C. (“Fiesta”). Fiesta, a portfolio company of ACON Investments, L.L.C., is a Texas-based international food retailer with an emphasis on the Hispanic segment operating 63 stores primarily in the Dallas and Houston areas. The combination of Bodega Latina and Fiesta creates one of the largest Hispanic-focused supermarket companies in the U.S., with a total of 122 stores across California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas and ... |
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New Online Farmers' Market Delivers Organic Groceries in Boston Area
BOSTON, March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- ClickToHarvest.com, the freshest grocery delivery service in Greater Boston, revealed new products in its catalog and plans for Spring harvests today. "We're excited for the first produce of the season!" Co-founder Dmitriy Peregudov said, "despite the cold, our farmers and producers have been working through winter to seed new plants, make cheeses and charcuterie, and one of them procured some of the best coffee beans in the world." Boston-area families can do their grocery shopping online easily and securely. They're guaranteed great foods from local artisanal farmers and small-batch producers; it is truly a farm ... |
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Esquirrou Named 2018 World Champion Cheese
MADISON, Wis., March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A hard sheep's milk cheese called Esquirrou, made in France at Mauleon Fromagerie by Michel Touyarou and imported by Savencia Cheese USA of New Holland, Pennsylvania has been named the 2018 World Champion Cheese. Earning an impressive score of 98.376 out of 100, Esquirrou (pronounced ehs-keer-oo) bested a record-breaking 3,402 entries in the 2018 contest. Esquirrou is crafted in the Pyrénées region of France, aged no less than 90 days, and features nutty notes and a toasted wheat aroma. First runner-up in the contest, with a score of 98.267, is Arzberger Ursteirer, a hard ... |
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Bell Media Acquires Carted, an Online Digital Advertising Platform for Independent Grocers
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Bell Media, a Digital Marketing Agency focused on solving problems and delivering desired business outcomes for their clients, recently announced that they have acquired Carted, an online shopping and digital marketing provider for grocers. Carted offers tools designed specifically for the independent grocer, and features three layers of marketing products that will allow grocers to quickly utilize features previously only appreciated by larger chains. Carted, at its very basic level offers a digital brochure website replete with such features as digital weekly ads, integrations with the Reach Offers coupon platform and allows for ... |
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The a2 Milk Company™ Rolls Out First National Advertising Campaign
NEW YORK – March 19, 2018 The a2 Milk Company™ has launched its U.S. national advertising campaign, capitalizing on strong momentum from The a2 Milk Company’s major northeast expansion. The a2 Milk Company’s advertisements began on Monday, March 12, and are airing on ABC, NBC, Bravo, Food Network and HGTV networks during major shows including, The Today Show, Top Chef, The Walking Dead and This is Us. In January, The a2 Milk Company announced a major expansion in the U.S. market into the northeast, making products available in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. This ... |
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Online Growth Among Housewares Buyers Extends to Adjacent Categories,?Reports NPD’s Checkout
Port Washington, NY, March 8, 2018 – U.S. online sales of housewares products increased 18 percent in 2017, according to e-commerce insights from The NPD Group’s Checkout consumer receipt mining service. On average, nearly a quarter of online buyers purchase housewares, buying three to four of these items online in a year. In addition, more than half of these buyers also purchased other items for their home in 2017. The top categories among U.S. housewares e-commerce buyers were food storage, gadgets, and tabletop categories, with more than one in four buyers purchasing them online, outpacing the industry average. Three-quarters of these e-commerce buyers also purchased ... |
